Where are Columbus' seclusion rooms?

Some readers have been surprised to learn that seclusion rooms -- sometimes called timeout rooms
or quiet rooms -- existed in traditional Columbus schools.

They've long been part of the district's schools that enroll exclusively students with severe
emotional or behavioral disabilities. As I wrote in today's paper, a state agency that protects
people with disabilities
has sued Columbus City Schools for access to records that show where these
rooms are, who has been placed in them and for how long, among other things. The Ohio Legal Rights
Service has been trying to investigate since a mother of a boy with autism at Eastmoor Academy said
her son was sent to a seclusion room. He was terrified and he stripped naked and urinated, she
said. (Read the lawsuit
here.)

The district says there are 11 seclusion rooms total in schools that serve students with severe
behavioral issues. The district calls them "respite processing rooms." Here's where they are:

High schools: Beechcroft, Eastmoor Academy and Whetstone.

Middle Schools: Arts Impact, Clearbrook, Ridgeview and Sherwood.

Elementaries: Beatty Park, Como, Duxberry and Indian Springs.

I saw one at Beatty Park several years ago (this was before the school was rebuilt) and this is
what it was like: a plain, small, cell-like room with no door. The investigator from Ohio Legal
Rights saw the one at Eastmoor and described it as a padded, windowless room with a door with two
peep holes and a foot-latch lock.